Thomas Lang

Thomas Lang has more than 25 years of experience in the field of biostatistics. He spent eight years in academic medical research, followed by almost three years in clinical research in the pharmaceutical industry. Being employed at the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety since 2006, he currently works as senior statistical assessor.

For more than nine years he was a member of the Scientific Advice Working Party at the European Medicines Agency (EMA). In his current role of a member of the EMA’s Biostatistics Working Party, Thomas is heavily involved in different tasks related to methodological and statistical issues in the regulatory field.

Thomas has published and co-authored in statistical and medical journals, covering a broad spectrum of medical and methodological domains. In the past, he gave many biostatistics courses and lectures, and made several contributions to international conferences and workshops.